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Date: Sat Feb 07 2009 - 16:18:16 PST
Part 1 of 2: This week [February 7 - 15, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Ways of Hearing: An Audio-Visual Amalgamation (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: February 27, 2009)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (NYC, NY; Deadline: February 20, 2009)
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI ; USA; Deadline: March 26, 2009)
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Woodstock Museum 10th Annual FREE Film/Video Festival (Woodstock, NY U.S.A.; Deadline: August 05, 2009)
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Wimbledon Film Festival 2009 (London, UK; Deadline: March 31, 2009)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 10, 2009)
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CHEESE SANDWICH FILM FESTIVAL (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: March 25, 2009)
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CAMBOFEST: Film, Video & Animation Festival of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: April 01, 2009)
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TRANSFIXED MOTION | THE TRANSITORY STILL (sheffield, UK; Deadline: February 23, 2009)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (NYC, NY; Deadline: February 20, 2009)
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Renderyard International Film Festival (London; Deadline: February 13, 2009)
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MEDIA CITY (Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: February 20, 2009)
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4th Annual Short Shorts Film Festival (Duluth, MN, USA; Deadline: February 13, 2009)
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The Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: February 15, 2009)
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Detroit Shorts Film Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: March 01, 2009)
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Euganea Movie Movement 2009 (Monselice/Este - ITALY; Deadline: March 13, 2009)
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Soft Science: The Human Animal (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2009)
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Ventura Film Festival (Ventura, CA. USA; Deadline: February 16, 2009)
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60 x 60 WHAT IF? (new england, usa; Deadline: February 16, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* International Directors Lounge 2009 [February 7, Berlin, Germany]
* Missing Allen/Grandfather Trilogy [February 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Looptheloop: Workshop and Performance [February 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema Genet / Frank & Leslie / Jacobs & Fleischner [February 7, New York, New York]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 7, New York, New York]
* Babo 73 [February 7, New York, New York]
* Moment To Moment [February 7, New York, New York]
* Chafed Elbows [February 7, New York, New York]
* Water Shorts [February 7, San Francisco, California]
* Urban Research Screening At Directors Lounge 2009 [February 8, Berlin, Germany]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 [February 8, Berlin, Germany]
* Sensory Spaces #1 [February 8, Berlin, Germany]
* Changing the Shape of Film: Available Space and Bent Time By Barbara
Hammer [February 8, Berlin, Germany]
* Sense of Architecture By Heinz Emigholz [February 8, Berlin, Germany]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents South Main By Kelly Parker [February 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema Grant / Jacobs & Fleischner [February 8, New York, New York]
* Moment To Moment [February 8, New York, New York]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 8, New York, New York]
* No More Excuses [February 8, New York, New York]
* Babo 73 [February 8, New York, New York]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 [February 9, Berlin, Germany]
* Sensory Spaces #2 [February 9, Berlin, Germany]
* Lunch Break By Sharon Lockhart [February 9, Berlin, Germany]
* Films By Stan Brakhage, 1971-1972: the Pittsburgh Trilogy [February 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* Leandro Katz- the Day You'll Love Me [February 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 9, New York, New York]
* The Juche Idea [February 9, New York, New York]
* Urban Research Screening At Directors Lounge 2009 [February 10, Berlin, Germany]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 [February 10, Berlin, Germany]
* All Fall Down By Philip Hoffman [February 10, Berlin, Germany]
* Double Take By Johan Grimonprez [February 10, Berlin, Germany]
* A Horse Is Not A Metaphor - Films By Barbara Hammer [February 10, Berlin, Germany]
* I Pity the Fool [February 10, Kiel, Germany]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 10, New York, New York]
* Almost Cut My Meds [February 10, San Francisco, California]
* Urban Research Screening At Directors Lounge 2009 [February 11, Berlin, Germany]
* Urban Research Special Screening During Directors Lounge 2009 [February 11, Berlin, Germany]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 | [February 11, Berlin, Germany]
* Bob Harris: Films & Tapes [February 11, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents South Main By Kelly Parker [February 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 11, New York, New York]
* Great Speeches From A Dying World [February 11, New York, New York]
* <B>Elemental Dispositions</B> [February 11, San Francisco, California]
* Urban Research Screening At Directors Lounge 2009 [February 12, Berlin, Germany]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 [February 12, Berlin, Germany]
* Ludwig SchöNherr #1 [February 12, Berlin, Germany]
* Through the Looking Glass: videos By Cecelia Condit [February 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* I Pity the Fool [February 12, Leipzig, Germany]
* Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy - A Documentary By Reto Caduff [February 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 12, New York, New York]
* Great Speeches From A Dying World [February 12, New York, New York]
* Nothing But A Man [February 12, San Francisco, California]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 [February 13, Berlin, Germany]
* Ludwig SchöNherr #2 [February 13, Berlin, Germany]
* Electromediascope [February 13, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Open Screening [February 13, Melbourne, Australia]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 13, New York, New York]
* Great Speeches From A Dying World [February 13, New York, New York]
* I Pity the Fool [February 13, Zurich, Switzerland]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 [February 14, Berlin, Germany]
* Ludwig SchöNherr #3 [February 14, Berlin, Germany]
* Une Simple Histoire [February 14, New York, New York]
* Great Speeches From A Dying World [February 14, New York, New York]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 14, New York, New York]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 - Closing Night and Party [February 15, Berlin, Germany]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Binaural: New Media Art From the Nodar
Artist Residency Center In Portugal [February 15, Los Angeles, California]
* The Free Screen - Heinz Emigholz's Loos Ornamental [February 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009
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2/7
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/7
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7 pm - 10 pm, 322 Union Avenue
MISSING ALLEN/GRANDFATHER TRILOGY
UnionDocs will be screening Missing Allen by Christian Bauer with a
post-screening discussion with the director curated by Lorenzo Gattorna.
Also screening on 16mm is The Grandfather Trilogy by Allen Ross. MISSING
ALLEN BY CHRISTIAN BAUER A story like Missing Allen has never been told
on film. Most documentary-filmmakers find their subjects in other
people´s lives - here the director is not only personally involved, but
Christian Bauer also tells the story of an unfolding mystery, the story
of the search for a lost friend and colleague, in which the filmmaker
becomes the detective. THE GRANDFATHER TRILOGY BY ALLEN ROSS The
Grandfather Trilogy (1978-81, 60 mins., 16mm) is a major work of Chicago

filmmaker (and Chicago Filmmakers co-founder) Allen Ross.
Comprised of the 
three short films Papa, Thanksgiving, 1979, and
Burials, it is a moving and 
deeply personal portrait of the
filmmaker's grandfather. Featuring Ross' 
subtle and lyrical
camerawork, beautiful black and white and color 
cinematography,
and humane and tender treatment of it's subject, The Grandfather Trilogy
is one of the key independent films from Chicago, once 
again
available in stunning new prints.
2/7
Los Angeles, California: none
http://panoramaonview.org
2; 6, 1200 N Alvarado St.
LOOPTHELOOP: WORKSHOP AND PERFORMANCE
EPFC will host a 16mm loop workshop Saturday, Feb 7 at 2pm. Workshop
participants will work individually to create various loop techniques
and then join in groups to prepare multi-projection performances.
Number-one drummer, Corey Fogel will oversee local band "MOSES LOOPBELL"
in composing and performing sound repetitions with each performance. The
groups will perform their creations for the public at6pm.
2/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA GENET / FRANK & LESLIE / JACOBS & FLEISCHNER
Jean Genet UN CHANT D'AMOUR 1950, 26 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Jean
Genet's poetic expression of male eroticism pitted against the confines
of prison cells and a homophobic state. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie
PULL MY DAISY 1959, 29 minutes, 35mm, b&w. A largely spontaneous
experiment, arranged in 1959 by Robert Frank along with Alfred Leslie.
They enlisted the participation of Jack Kerouac, who offered in place of
an original screenplay a stage play he'd never finished writing, "The
Beat Generation." Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35
minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up. Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by
Anthology, with the generous support of the Film Foundation, the
National Film Preservation Foundation, Simon Lund and Cineric, Inc.
"BLONDE COBRA is an erratic narrative – no, not really a narrative, it's
only stretched out in time for convenience of delivery. It's a look in
on an exploding life, on a man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable
Lower East Side deprivation and consumed with American 1950s, 40s, 30s
disgust." –K.J. Total program time: ca. 95 minutes
2/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and
46 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made
up of footage that I took with my Sony from the television newscasts
during the collapse of the USSR, with the home noises in the background.
It's a capsule record of what happened and how it happened during that
crucial period as recorded by the television newscasters. "It can be
also viewed as a classic Greek drama in which the destinies of nations
are changed drastically by the unbending, bordering-on-irrational will
of one small man, one small nation determined to regain its freedom,
backed by Olympus in its fight against the Might & Power, against the
Impossible." –J.M. Forces of time, memory, change, and human will
collide in Mekas's new film. The work's title refers to the historical
time when the world watched as Mekas's home country of Lithuania fought
for independence from the stronghold of Soviet rule. With a video
camera, Mekas recorded newscasts that played daily in 1991 on his
television set at home. Footage includes reports of the Soviet Union's
use of 'aggressive actions' that called for Lithuania to back down,
freedom demonstrations, interviews and statements made by top
politicians, journalists, and analysts including Lithuanian President
Vytautas Landsbergis, Deputy Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene, Soviet
Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and United
States President George H.W. Bush among others, as well as moving
portraits of the Lithuanian people who were directly affected by the
conflict. Mekas's account, reported by news outlets in the United
States, also reveals the shaping and shifting of political, economic,
and social relations between Eastern Europe and the West at the time.
Part One: 75 minutes. Part Two: 69 minutes. Part Three: 75 minutes. Part
Four: 67 minutes. –Friday, February 6 through Sunday, February 15 at
6:30 nightly. There will be a 15-minute intermission following Part Two.
2/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
BABO 73
Robert Downey Sr. 1964, 59 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up. Welcome to The
United Status, a country led by President Taylor Mead. Say what? That's
right, this ribald satire focuses on superstar Mead's blundering
administration at the very brink of oblivion. Among their many problems,
it seems, is that the Red Siamese have hatched a plan to flood the
market with contraceptives in an effort to bring down the birthrate and
debilitate the nation. The President and his crooked cabinet spend most
of their time wandering around Washington, DC, or hanging out on the
beach (where all decisions of national importance should be made). As
silly as it is serious, BABO 73 takes no prisoners.
2/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
MOMENT TO MOMENT
Robert Downey Sr. 1975, 73 minutes, 16mm-to-video. Also known as TWO
TONS OF TURQUOISE TO TAOS TONIGHT, and even as JIVE, this is a movie
you've most likely never seen. Highly personal and at the same time
completely illogical, this cacophonous comedy has virtually no semblance
of a storyline or plot. The great Elsie Downey, the director's then-wife
and the mother of his children (who are featured prominently
throughout), drives the film with her boisterous performance in what may
very well be more than 10 roles. Shot and edited piecemeal over a few
years, MOMENT TO MOMENT is a collage of everything from staged scenes to
home movies, and features a soundtrack by the legendary Jack Nietszche
and David Sanborn.
2/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue
CHAFED ELBOWS
Robert Downey Sr. 1966, 57 minutes, 35mm. Hmm…where to start? Hapless
Walter Dinsmore undergoes his annual November breakdown at the 1954
World's Fair, has a love affair with his mother, recollects his
hysterectomy operation, impersonates a cop, is sold as a piece of living
art, goes to heaven, and becomes the singer in a rock band. But not
necessarily in that order. A manic comedy made for a whopping $25,000,
CHAFED ELBOWS was a commercial success that raised the flag of the
underground film scene and elevated the good cause of bad taste. Downey
photographed most of the movie with a still 35mm camera and had the film
processed at Walgreens. These pictures were animated alongside a few
live-action scenes and almost all the dialogue was dubbed to rather
hilarious effect. One scene was even shot in Anthology's upstairs
theater back in the days when our building was still a defunct downtown
courthouse. An ingenious comedy with a rare visual sensibility,
comic-book playfulness and cheeky bad attitude, CHAFED ELBOWS is the
best of all possible worlds.
2/7
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
WATER SHORTS
Saturday, February 7, 2009. 8PM $6 Water Shorts Experimental Shorts &
Animations From San Francisco & New Orleans Home-made cameras, Narwals,
Floods, Puppets, Death, Anti-Science, Confusion, shot on 8 &16mm film. A
collection of cinematic experimentalism curated by Hannah Lew.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2009
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2/8
Berlin, Germany: Urban Research
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2009/framesIndex.html
6 pm, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH SCREENING AT DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
"The Future is Elsewhere?" | Jeffrey Skoller, The Promise of Happiness,
Pt#1 | Vietnam, 2008, 0:32:00 | Jeremy Beaudry, Market Walk, 2008,
0:05:35 | Christophe Lepretre, Haji Ali's Tomb, 2007, 0:10:00 | Daniela
Kostova & Olivia Robinson, Negotiations, 2006-2007, 0:05:00 | Mick
Skolnick, Urban Noctune, 2008,0:09:30 | Samantha Crui, Quadrafónica
Urbana, 2008, 0:12:00 | curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr | www.richfilm.de
2/8
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/8
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
10:30pm, Arsenal 1, Potsdamer Strasse 2
SENSORY SPACES #1
Kröten / Toads Milena Gierke, Germany 2008, 35mm, 6' Images of a stream
in southern France: it's the toads' mating season. LINT LENT LAND
Isabell Spengler, Germany 2009, 35mm, 9' LINT LENT LAND – does that mean
"Dust has temporarily given this land its form"? Triangulum Melissa
Dullius, Gustavo Jahn (Directors) Michel Balagué (Cinematography),
Germany / Egypt / Brasil 2008, 35mm, 22' Past, present and where they
meet form Triangulum. Material Film Performance: A 35mm Cinemascope
Expanded Cinema Event Wilhelm Hein (film), John & Tim Blue (music), 35'
Man Ray's artistic constraints were put aside and an anarchistic, pure
"Materialfilm"-cinema emerged.
2/8
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
6pm, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Invalidenstrasse 50-51
CHANGING THE SHAPE OF FILM: AVAILABLE SPACE AND BENT TIME BY BARBARA
HAMMER
Film Performance (reprised from 1979-1983) Available Space Who
determined that film should be projected upon a rectangular white
reflective screen? What would happen if this formula were challenged? If
the projector moved and the audience had to move to see the film?
Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary
projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space,
the limited space of a film frame, and the boundaries of a movie screen.
Un- expected angles, corners, slants, floor and ceiling are engaged in
unexpected play and projection. Bent Time A round translucent screen, an
inflated weather balloon provides another form for activating the
audience. To see the film spectators move around and under the screen.
The audience movement creates multiple viewpoints as the image curves
and bends.
2/8
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
8:30pm, Arsenal 2, Potsdamer Strasse 2
SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE BY HEINZ EMIGHOLZ
The film "Sense of Architecture" shows 42 contemporary architectural
projects of Austrian origins. As an independent work, it emerged from
the material for 57 short films that Heinz Emigholz produced for the
traveling exhibition conceived in Graz, "Sense of Architecture". Unlike
the exhibition, which grouped the architecture thematically, the new
film assembles the project into a social realtiy in which modern
buildings were constructed for all areas of life.
2/8
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS SOUTH MAIN BY KELLY PARKER
Los Angeles Filmforum presents SOUTH MAIN (2008, 77 minutes) by Kelly
Parker. Los Angeles premiere of an intimate portrait of three single
African American mothers as they struggle to raise their families and
regain their lives after a government imposed relocation and closure of
their apartment complex in South Los Angeles. General admission $10,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation
stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with
validation.
2/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA GRANT / JACOBS & FLEISCHNER
Dwinell Grant COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS 1941, 5 minutes, 16mm. STOP
MOTION TESTS 1942, 3 minutes, 16mm. COLOR SEQUENCE 1943, 3 minutes,
16mm. Ken Jacobs LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS 1959-63, 18 minutes, 16mm.
Featuring Jack Smith. "Material was cut in as it came out of the camera,
embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old
78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where
suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics." –K.J.
Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes,
16mm-to-35mm blow-up. Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with
the generous support of the Film Foundation, the National Film
Preservation Foundation, Simon Lund and Cineric, Inc. Total running
time: ca. 70 minutes.
2/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
MOMENT TO MOMENT
Directed by Robert Downey Sr. 1975, 73 minutes, 16mm-to-video. Also
known as TWO TONS OF TURQUOISE TO TAOS TONIGHT, and even as JIVE, this
is a movie you've most likely never seen. Highly personal and at the
same time completely illogical, this cacophonous comedy has virtually no
semblance of a storyline or plot. The great Elsie Downey, the director's
then-wife and the mother of his children (who are featured prominently
throughout), drives the film with her boisterous performance in what may
very well be more than 10 roles. Shot and edited piecemeal over a few
years, MOMENT TO MOMENT is a collage of everything from staged scenes to
home movies, and features a soundtrack by the legendary Jack Nietszche
and David Sanborn.
2/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Directed by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took
with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the
USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of
what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded
by the television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek
drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
2/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
NO MORE EXCUSES
Directed by Robert Downey Sr. 1968, 44 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up.
Perhaps the rowdiest of Downey's early films (which is saying quite a
lot), this truly incomparable film interweaves five short scenarios into
one raucous amalgamation. A dazed Yankee Civil War soldier (played by
Downey) mysteriously awakens in early-60s NYC where, naturally, he heads
to Yankee Stadium; Alan Abel, Director of the Society for Indecency to
Naked Animals (SINA), speaks from the heart of his group's moral crusade
to clothe all animals; Charles J. Guiteau repeatedly bungles his
assassination attempts on President James Garfield; a priestly pervert
and a chimp (yes, a chimp) engage with a plus-sized lover; and, in what
just might be the most disorienting scenes, Downey visits the seriously
swinging singles scene that is the original T.G.I. Friday's on the Upper
East Side. As unpredictable as it is unhinged, NO MORE EXCUSES is
downright funny, and art brut to the max.
2/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45pm, 32 Second Avenue
BABO 73
Directed by Robert Downey Sr. 1964, 59 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up.
Welcome to The United Status, a country led by President Taylor Mead.
Say what? That's right, this ribald satire focuses on superstar Mead's
blundering administration at the very brink of oblivion. Among their
many problems, it seems, is that the Red Siamese have hatched a plan to
flood the market with contraceptives in an effort to bring down the
birthrate and debilitate the nation. The President and his crooked
cabinet spend most of their time wandering around Washington, DC, or
hanging out on the beach (where all decisions of national importance
should be made). As silly as it is serious, BABO 73 takes no prisoners.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2009
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2/9
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/9
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
10:30pm, Arsenal 1, Potsdamer Strasse 2
SENSORY SPACES #2
Sensory Spaces #2 16-18-4 Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan 2008, 35mm, 2'30"
This film was shot by a still camera with 16 lenses, which takes a
series of 16 pictures within 1.5 seconds. It shows scenes of Tokyo
Racecourse, when it was holding the biggest race of the year, Japanese
Derby. Out In The Light Martin Ebner, Katja Eydel, Klaus Weber, Germany
2008, DigiBeta, 16' Out In The Light is an experimental video with a
logic of its own. In its conception it follows the elusive line between
human consciousness and trustingly giving in to a possible loss of
control. Dive Into Mankind Ria Pacquée, Belgium 2008, DVD, 17' From East
to West and West to East. Between clean and dirty water. People in
search for money, belief, hope and health. Appearing and disappearing.
Cleaning their body and mind. They are the water, in the water. Block B
Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia / Canada 2008, 35mm, 20' A building
becomes a living painting.
2/9
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
8:30pm, Arsenal 2, Potsdamer Strasse 2
LUNCH BREAK BY SHARON LOCKHART
Over the last 15 years Sharon Lockhart has made films and photographs
that frame moments of everyday life while exploring the subtle
relationships between the two media. Lockhart's latest films and
photographic series describe a specific place and time: Maine's Bath
Iron Works at the start of the 21st century. Lockhart spent the last
year looking at the lives of workers in the historic shipyard and each
project examines a different element of their everyday experience. Lunch
Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor
stretching nearly the entire shipyard. Contrary to her previous films,
the camera is untethered and, as it slowly moves down the corridor, we
experience what was a brief interval in the workday schedule expanded
into a sustained gaze. The soundtrack is a composition designed in
collaboration with composer Becky Allen and filmmaker James Benning, in
which industrial sounds, music, and voices slowly merge and intertwine.
Together, picture and sound provide an extended meditation on a moment
of respite from productive labor.
2/9
Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films
http://docfilms.uchicago.edu
7:00, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St.
FILMS BY STAN BRAKHAGE, 1971-1972: THE PITTSBURGH TRILOGY
Films by Stan Brakhage, 1971-1972: The Pittsburgh Trilogy 102 minutes,
16mm Admission: $5 In each of these films Brakhage depicts a different
one of what he thought of as 'mystical occupations,' those social
functions we depend upon but rarely consider as lived experiences. The
first, eyes, considers policemen as society's ocular specialists, whose
trained visual facility keeps us both safe and under surveillance. DEUS
EX looks at the hospital as a site for modern miracles. THE ACT OF
SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES enters a morgue, where the disassembling of
human bodies reveals constellations of sublime possibilities curtailed
by death.
2/9
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
LEANDRO KATZ- THE DAY YOU'LL LOVE ME
Since returning to his native Buenos Aires in 2006 after four decades on
Manhattan's Lower East Side, the filmmaker, artist and poet has worked
on restoring and digitally preserving the 17 visually stunning films he
had completed since the mid-1970s. This selection of Katz's most beloved
filmwork centers on the award-winning El día que me quieras (The Day
You'll Love Me, 1997, 30 min.), a poignant deconstruction of the iconic
1967 photograph of the dead Ché Guevara within overlapping layers of
political, historical and aesthetic discourse. Also on the program is
the legendary Splits (1978, 25 min.), a formally adventurous,
politically incisive variation on Jorge Luis Borges' haunting Emma Zunz.
And Paradox ((2001, 30 min.), shot in Guatemala on land owned by the
former United Fruit Company, is part of an extended series of work
(films, photographs, invented alphabets, artist's books, installations)
that derive from Katz's longstanding fascination with Mayan
archeological sites. In person: Leandro Katz Jack H. Skirball Series $9
[students $7]
2/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Directed by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took
with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the
USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of
what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded
by the television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek
drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
2/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE JUCHE IDEA
Directed by Jim Finn 2008, 62 minutes, video In the late-1960s, Kim Jong
Il guaranteed his succession as the Dear Leader of North Korea by
adapting his father's Juche philosophy to propaganda, film and art.
Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped
in the 70s to invigorate the North Korean film industry, this often
humorous faux-documentary follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist
invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective
farm.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009
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2/10
Berlin, Germany: Urban Research
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2009/framesIndex.html
6 pm, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH SCREENING AT DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
Community And the Street | Cordula Gdaniec and Julia Ovchinnikova,
Megapolis Moskau, 2006, 0:33:00 | Jeremy Xido, Macondo, 2007, 0:10:00 |
Pilar Ortiz and Paola Velásquez , Mutación Block, 2004, 0:25:01 | Aline
Helmcke, pavement, 2007, 0:01:27 | Simon Tarr, Matrix, 2002, 0:04:00
2/10
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/10
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
12:15pm, Cinestar 8, Potsdamer Platz
ALL FALL DOWN BY PHILIP HOFFMAN
All Fall Down is an experimental documentary that takes as its starting
point a nineteenth-century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and
asks the question "What has been here before?" The film weaves together
a complex temporal structure that juxtaposes the lives of two figures,
one historical (Nahneebahweequa: a nineteenth-century aboriginal woman
and land rights activist) and the other contemporary (an ex-pat drifter
and father of the filmmaker's step daughter) across two hundred years.
All Fall Down explores these characters through a variety of archival
materials: diaries, landscape paintings, photographs, heritage films,
poems, phone messages, maps, historical reenactments, songs, that
express the complexity of time and the politics of land. The film is
structured through Hoffman's extraordinary landscapes of Southern
Ontario which make the temporal fabric shimmer, bringing us a meditation
on childhood, property, colonialism, ecology, and love. Supporting film:
ANAMNESIS by Scott Miller Berry anamnesis is a handmade diary film
exploring home, memory and history.
2/10
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
2:30pm, Cinestar 8, Potsdamer Platz
DOUBLE TAKE BY JOHAN GRIMONPREZ
Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history
professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war
period. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times
while politicians on both sides desperately clammer to say the right
things, live on TV. Double Take targets the global political rise of
"fear as a commodity" in a tale of odd couples and double deals. As
television hijacks cinema, and the Krushchev and Nixon debate rattles
on, sexual politics quietly take off and Alfred himself emerges in a
dandy new role on the TV, blackmailing housewives with brands they can't
refuse. The novelist Tom McCarthy writes a plot of personal paranoia to
mirror the political intrigue, in which Hitchcock and his elusive double
increasingly obsess over the perfect murder - of each other! Subverting
a meticulous array of TV footage and using The Birds as an essential
metaphor, Grimonprez traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on
the home, from moving images' inception to the present day.
2/10
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
5:45pm, Arsenal 1, Potsdamer Platz
A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR - FILMS BY BARBARA HAMMER
A Horse Is Not A Metaphor Filmmaker Barbara Hammer fights ovarian cancer
with visions of horseback riding and river swimming in her new
experimental film A Horse Is Not A Metaphor. Ham- mer says she is a
"cancer thriver as well as survivor" in this hopeful and densely layered
personal work with music by composer Meredith Monk. Together with Vital
Signs, USA 1991, 16mm, 9' Sanctus, USA 1990, 16mm, 19', score by Neil B.
Rolnick Still Point, USA 1989, 16mm, 8'
2/10
Kiel, Germany: Palenke
9:00 pm, Gerhardstrasse 91
I PITY THE FOOL
U.S. filmmaker Brent Coughenour in person to present a super 8 narrative
city-poem exploring the devastation left by post-industrial collapse in
the city of Detroit. I PITY THE FOOL, 2007, super 8 presented on video,
83 min. "Like the pieces of a puzzle, I PITY THE FOOL gradually accrues
more elements as it goes on: fragments of narrative combine with other
fragments that at first have no obvious connection. As opposed to
story-lines in many feature-length films that gradually tie up and
resolve their different threads, the focus of the film continues to
broaden and expand, becoming more complex, open-ended and mysterious.
Undertaking a kind of archaeological search for things nearly recent and
long past, the film attempts to re-capture the marginalized and
defiantly minor histories of [the city's] forgotten tenants . . . . I
PITY THE FOOL is essential viewing to anyone interested in, among other
things, urban space, post-industrial landscapes, psycho-geography, found
objects, DIY filmmaking, super 8, experimental narrative, and radical
film form." -Luke Sieczek, Northwest Film Forum
2/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Directed by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took
with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the
USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of
what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded
by the television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek
drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
2/10
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
ALMOST CUT MY MEDS
Tuesday, February 10, 2009. 8PM $6-$10 Almost Cut My Meds A cavalcade of
urban-folk psycho-delica brought to you by the Booklyn Artists Alliance,
the 306 Flat Files Gallery and ATA. Hosted by Booklyn founders Peter
Spagnulo, Marshall Weber (also an ATA founder), and Christopher Wilde.
Featuring a rare poetry reading by Bay Area iconoclast Jim Powell,
performances by cult hero Fred Rinne and popster Kottie Paloma's Allstar
Friends Posse, with music by Eric Landmark, The Andy DeGiovanni
Experience, The Blutfahrt Reloaded David Crosby Crack Shots, and
artists' books and multi-media presentations by S.F. art-god Scott
Williams, local heroine Dana Smith and many more fabulous things too
numerous to mention in this teency blurb!
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